10 Horror Remakes So Bad They Never Got A Sequel

The only Elm Street movies were watching have Wes Craven’s name in the writing credits, but since that amounts to 3 films, the remainder are only palatable thanks to the participation of the man synonymous with Freddy Krueger, Mr Robert Englund.

Elm Street 2010 tries to start over with a new Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley), but it can’t make the extremely familiar material seem fresh so it resorts to knocking off scenes we’ve seen before, including an ending that viewers will see coming from a mile away. It’s the same attitude that Platinum Dunes brought to their remakes of The Hitcher and Friday The 13th: let’s give them what we think they want and get out of here.

Needless to say, such an attitude didn’t go over well with critics. “The back-to-the-beginning approach unimaginatively goes through the motions,” wrote one, “offering scant reason for its existence, at least from an artistic point of view.”